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ah yes, cyborg Dana has been programmed perfectly... when confronted with the lies regarding Iraq, just parrot the following deflection: "the coalition of the willing fell for it too, why don't you blame them?"...

Perino Dismisses CPI Study: Truth On How We Sold The Iraq War Is Not âWorth Spending Time Onâ Â» ...

A new study by the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism found that the Bush administration issued 935 false statements about the threat from Iraq in the two years following 9/11. President Bush âled with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.â

In todayâs press briefing, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino attacked the study. Perino claimed the study âis so flawedâ because it âonly looked at members of the administrationâ and not âpeople around the worldâ:

I hardly think that the study is worth spending time on. It is so flawed, in terms of taking anything into context or including â they only looked at members of the administration, rather than looking at members of Congress or people around the world.

Because, as youâll remember, we were part of a broad coalition of countries that deposed the dictator based on a collective understanding of the intelligence.​

And yet there are plenty of reasons why the deceitful run-up to war is not old news. For one, the war goes on. For another, government credibility remains severely damaged. And then there's the fact that the president has never really been held to account for his repeated falsehoods.

Bush famously told The Washington Post, upon embarking on his second term, that he saw the 2004 election as his "accountability moment." Yet neither before nor since has he admitted mistakes or poor judgment. The closest he came may have been in December 2005, when he acknowledged intelligence failures -- by others.

What About the Senate Intelligence Committee?

So what, you may well ask, ever happened to the Senate Intelligence Committee's promised inquiry into whether the White House intentionally deceived the public in the run-up to war? That, presumably, would provide an accountability moment of sorts.

You may recall that more than two years ago, in November 2005, Democrats were so upset about Republican foot-dragging on the inquiry that they brought the Senate to a halt with a rare closed session to demand that work resume.

The Republicans, not surprisingly, continued to stall anyway. But the Democrats have controlled the Senate for more than a year now. Where is the report?

Wendy Morigi, spokeswoman for Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, told me this morning that it will be out before the end of spring.